Assistive Technology

General Information and Resources

• Assistive Technology page from HLAA
• How does a Deaf or hard-of-hearing person use technology? from Level Access
• Auditor Disabilities and what you need for accessibility from Telerik
• How do Deafblind people use technology? from Level Access
• "How Facebook Allows Me to Connect with People in Ways My Deafness Prevents": article by Christina Teani in Huffington Post about uses of on-line technology.
• How to handle an in-person meeting with hearing loss from Living With Hearing Loss (January 2020)
• How to make your corporate meetings accessible to people with hearing loss from Convene (January 2020)
• A Video Phone makes ASL communication easy
• Sorenson Video Phone

ASL

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Captions

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Cochlear Implants

• "How Bionic Ears Have Changed People's Lives", Business Insider, August 11, 2014.
• "Switching on my hearing — William's cochlear implant story", BBC Ouch!: "I'm never going to be hearing. I'm never going to stop being deaf. But hopefully this little computer that now lives in my head will make life a bit easier."
• How to keep your cochlear implant working safely from Hearing Health.

Hearing Aids

• Medicare coverage, Making Hearing Aids Affordable
• Hearing Aids Funding from HLAA
• Financial Assistance for Hearing Aids, Better Hearing Institute (February 2020)
• CBS News report on developments in hearing aids (August 11, 2019)
• Signia Hearing Aids that adjust to background and movement (September 22, 2019)
• FCC, hearing aid compatibility and telephones (October 2019)
• Build your own hearing aid maintenance kit, Hearing Direct (February 2020)
• Glittery hearing aids for dolls (October 2019)
• Putting the Cool in Hearing Aid Design: interesting designs, where is God in design?
• Got it? Flaunt it! (hearing aid design) (August 2019)
• Confidence from hearing aid designs
• How to use the Android Sound Amplifier app, Tech Republic (February 2020)

Hearing Loops

• What You're Saying When You Say “I don't need a mic”, Unitarian Equal Access
• Hearing Loop.org, "Getting hard of hearing people in the loop"
• “Universal Design and Barrier-Free Access: Guidelines for Persons with Hearing Loss,” Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
• “Like the Mic,” captioned and AD video about using microphones (and sound systems) in all situations
  
• How Hearing Loops Work
  
• Hearing Loops Don't “Just Happen”
  
• First UMC of Red Wing Hearing Loop, Minnesota AC (November 2018)
• UM Reporter story, "Loop helps worshippers hear the Word" about the hearing loop system at Spring Valley UMC in Dallas, Texas. (May 2012)
• Read about the listening system at the UM Church of the Messiah in Westerville, Ohio (2012).